Teaching about the Impacts of Social Networks: An End of Life Perspective

Braman, James; Vincenti, Giovanni; Dudley, Alfreda; Wang, Yuanqiong; Rodgers, Karen; Thomas, Ursula

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39371-6_28

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“…Users have also criticized the lack of account settings that would make it possible to decide if or what part of their footprints they want to leave online (Grimm & Chiasson, 2014) However, research shows that some categories of user, e.g. young adults or those who have not given death much thought, have low level of awareness of impact of death on online information, including its management, passive persistence after death, and its use in memorialization (Braman et al, 2013;Cupar et al, 2023). Nevertheless, put in a wider context, Leaver (2018) calls for a broader sense of agency across all life stages on social media.…”

Section: The Dead Online: Digital Remains Posthumous Data Management ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Dinneen,

Krtalić,

Davoudi

et al. 2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Death is an inevitable part of life and highly relevant to information management: its approach often requires preparation, and its occurrence often demands a response. Many works in information science have acknowledged so much, and yet death is rarely a focused topic, appearing instead sporadically and disconnected across research. As a result there is no introduction to, overview of, or synthesis across studies on death and information. We therefore conducted an extensive literature search and reviewed nearly 300 scholarly publications at the intersection of death and information (and data) management. Covering seven topics in total, we review two groups of work directly engaging information management in relation to death (digital possessions, inheritance, and legacy; information behavior, needs, and practices around death), three engaging death and technology that require information and its management (death and the Internet, thanatosensitive design and technology‐augmented death practices, and the digital afterlife and digital immortality), and two reflecting the ethical and legal dimensions unique to death and information. We then integrate the collective findings to summarize the landscape of death‐related information research, outline remaining challenges for individuals, families, institutions, and society, and identify promising directions for future information science research.

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Section: The Dead Online: Digital Remains Posthumous Data Management ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Dinneen,

Krtalić,

Davoudi

et al. 2023

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“…In order to fully explore this emergent theme I conducted a review of published papers where authors had mentioned the words participants used to describe feelings of unease at seeing messages on social media platforms to and from the dead. I compiled a list of words used such as 'weird' (Brubaker et al 2013;Massimi 2012;Pennington 2013); 'gross' & 'odd' (Brubaker et al 2013); 'pop up' (Marwick and Ellison 2012;Odom et al 2010); 'strange' 'shock' and 'disturbing' (Odom et al 2010); 'creepy' (Braman et al 2013;Odom et al 2010). I then added other words to the list (including stemmed words), which could also be used to describe feelings of unease (see Table 5 below).…”

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Ctrl+Alt+Delete: The changing landscape of the uncanny valley and the fear of second loss

Bassett

2018

Curr Psychol

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We are living in a digital era where ubiquitous social media are becoming part of the everyday lives of many. These social media platforms were designed for the living; however an estimated 8000 Facebook members die daily. It is therefore no surprise that the phenomena of how social media platforms are adopted to discuss death dying and grieving have become a growing area of research across numerous disciplines. Using qualitative methods, this article adds to and moves beyond existing research by focusing on the creation and inheritance of Facebook pages, thanablogs, posthumous chatbots, posthumous messages and posthumous avatars, to explore whether digital afterlives enabled by the Internet affect how people grieve. In order to examine how these messages and memories are experienced this study used in-depth qualitative interviews with participants from 3 distinct areas: Digital Creators (DC), Digital Inheritors (DI) and Service Providers (SP) the findings presented here explore three emerging themes (1) the link between comfort and control (2) the changing landscape of the uncanny valley and (3) the fear of 'second loss'.

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Bassett

2022

The Creation and Inheritance of Digital Afterlives

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Teaching about the Impacts of Social Networks: An End of Life Perspective

Cited by 6 publications

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Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Ctrl+Alt+Delete: The changing landscape of the uncanny valley and the fear of second loss

A Philosophical Detour

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